Lynne Leatham Allen grew up in Othello, Washington. She met her husband at Ricks College and they were married in Idaho Falls Temple. She now lives in Cache Valley, Utah and has six children. After twenty-five years of designing cakes professionally, she is now retired and works in the temple. Lynne loves art, drawing, tole painting, oil painting, pastels, sewing quilts, clothes, gardening, and learning anything and everything she can.